memoirs of a World War II special agent
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Cornioley, Pearl Witherington
- Creator
- Larroque, Hervé > (m.m.v.)
- Creator
- Atwood, Kathryn J. > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- VS 1G 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- tweede wereldoorlog, krijgsmacht, verzetsbeweging, Verenigde Staten, Frankrijk, 1940-1949, 20e eeuw, autobiografie, egodocumenten
- Description
- Out of the 400 agents sent to France during the German occupation, 39 were women. Amongst them the author, Pearl Witherington Cornioley. In this publication she describes her childhood and escape from France in 1940, her recruitment and training as a special agent, the logistics and dangers of posing as a cosmetics saleswoman to make her way around the country as an undercover courier, and attempts at sabotaging the Nazis. She tells how, when the leader of her network was caught by the Gestapo, she became ‘Pauline’ and rose to command a 3,500-strong band of French Resistance fighters.